Canada and arctic North America an environmental history

Wynn, Graeme 1946- (Author).

Summary: "Between the arrival of the first humans tens of thousands of years ago and the activities of mining and logging companies in the present, the environment of the North American Arctic has been shaped by people and their activities. Canada and Arctic North America is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary environmental history of Canada - exploring the complex interplay between human societies and northern North America, from the Aleutian Islands to the Grand Banks, and from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Islands."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781851094424 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
ISBN: 1851094423 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xxiii, 503 p.) : ill., maps.
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-477) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Series foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- pt. 1. Deep time -- 1. Ice retreat, vegetation advance -- 2. First peoples/faunal extinctions -- 3. Northern North America a thousand years ago -- pt. 2. Contact and its consequences -- 4. Between land, sea, and ice : Inuit, Beothuks, Aleuts, and newcomers -- 5. Natives, nature, and trade in the interior -- 6. Trade and the Huron -- 7. Plagues, preachers, and the transformation of indigenous societies -- pt. 3. Settlers in a wooden world -- 8. Possessing and (re)peopling the land -- 9. Domesticating the land -- 10. Exploiting the waters -- 11. Commercializing the forest -- 12. Fields of exertion -- pt. 4. Nature subdued -- 13. Harnessing black and white coal -- 14. New urbanism -- 15. Countrysides in transition -- 16. The assault on the forest -- 17. Industrial fishing -- 18. Into the hard rock : northern mining -- 19. Transforming the interior -- 20. Rushing north : gold, the Yukon, and Alaska.